scholarly journals Characterizing Self-Reported Tobacco, Vaping, and Marijuana-Related Tweets Geolocated for California College Campuses

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael E. Cuomo ◽  
Vidya L. Purushothaman ◽  
Jiawei Li ◽  
Cortni Bardier ◽  
Matthew Nali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
California State University ◽  
Smoking Bans ◽  
State University ◽  
Smoking Behaviors ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
And Behavior

Introduction: College-aged youth are active on social media yet smoking-related social media engagement in these populations has not been thoroughly investigated. We sought to conduct an exploratory infoveillance study focused on geolocated data to characterize smoking-related tweets originating from California 4-year colleges on Twitter.Methods: Tweets from 2015 to 2019 with geospatial coordinates in CA college campuses containing smoking-related keywords were collected from the Twitter API stream and manually annotated for discussions about smoking product type, sentiment, and behavior.Results: Out of all tweets detected with smoking-related behavior, 46.7% related to tobacco use, 50.0% to marijuana, and 7.3% to vaping. Of these tweets, 46.1% reported first-person use or second-hand observation of smoking behavior. Out of 962 tweets with user sentiment, the majority (67.6%) were positive, ranging from 55.0% for California State University, Long Beach to 95.8% for California State University, Los Angeles.Discussion: We detected reporting of first- and second-hand smoking behavior on CA college campuses representing possible violation of campus smoking bans. The majority of tweets expressed positive sentiment about smoking behaviors, though there was appreciable variability between college campuses. This suggests that anti-smoking outreach should be tailored to the unique student populations of these college communities.Conclusion: Among tweets about smoking from California colleges, high levels of positive sentiment suggest that the campus climate may be less receptive to anti-smoking messages or adherence to campus smoking bans. Further research should investigate the degree to which this varies by campuses over time and following implementation of bans including validating using other sources of data.

scholarly journals Campus Smoking Policies and Smoking-Related Twitter Posts Originating From California Public Universities: Retrospective Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S Yang ◽  
Raphael E Cuomo ◽  
Vidya Purushothaman ◽  
Matthew Nali ◽  
Neal Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
California State University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Campus Policy ◽  
Smoking Policies ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
Chi Square Tests

BACKGROUND The number of colleges and universities with smoke- or tobacco-free campus policies has been increasing. The effects of campus smoking policies on overall sentiment, particularly among young adult populations, are more difficult to assess owing to the changing tobacco and e-cigarette product landscape and differential attitudes toward policy implementation and enforcement. OBJECTIVE The goal of the study was to retrospectively assess the campus climate toward tobacco use by comparing tweets from California universities with and those without smoke- or tobacco-free campus policies. METHODS Geolocated Twitter posts from 2015 were collected using the Twitter public application programming interface in combination with cloud computing services on Amazon Web Services. Posts were filtered for tobacco products and behavior-related keywords. A total of 42,877,339 posts were collected from 2015, with 2837 originating from a University of California or California State University system campus, and 758 of these manually verified as being about smoking. Chi-square tests were conducted to determine if there were significant differences in tweet user sentiments between campuses that were smoke- or tobacco-free (all University of California campuses and California State University, Fullerton) compared to those that were not. A separate content analysis of tweets included in chi-square tests was conducted to identify major themes by campus smoking policy status. RESULTS The percentage of positive sentiment tweets toward tobacco use was higher on campuses without a smoke- or tobacco-free campus policy than on campuses with a smoke- or tobacco-free campus policy (76.7% vs 66.4%, <i>P</i>=.03). Higher positive sentiment on campuses without a smoke- or tobacco-free campus policy may have been driven by general comments about one’s own smoking behavior and comments about smoking as a general behavior. Positive sentiment tweets originating from campuses without a smoke- or tobacco-free policy had greater variation in tweet type, which may have also contributed to differences in sentiment among universities. CONCLUSIONS Our study introduces preliminary data suggesting that campus smoke- and tobacco-free policies are associated with a reduction in positive sentiment toward smoking. However, continued expressions and intentions to smoke and reports of one’s own smoking among Twitter users suggest a need for more research to better understand the dynamics between implementation of smoke- and tobacco-free policies and resulting tobacco behavioral sentiment.

The Children’s Digital Media Center @ Los Angeles

2012 ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Kaveri Subrahmanyam ◽  
Adriana Manago
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
California State University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Media Center ◽  
The University

The Children’s Digital Media Center @ Los Angeles studies young people’s interactions with digital media – with a focus on the implications of these interactions for their offline lives and long-term development. Founded by Professor Patricia Greenfield, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, the Center is a collaborative effort of researchers at the UCLA and the California State University, Los Angeles, USA. CDMC@LA researchers have been at the forefront of research on children’s and adolescents’ use of media ranging from early media forms such as television and video games to more recent ones including various applications on the Internet such as chat rooms, social networking sites, and YouTube. This entry presents an overview of the Center – its history, researchers and collaborators, research focus, and major contributions.

Training in Remote Database Server Administration

2003 ◽  
pp. 88-97
Author(s):  
Ludwig Slusky ◽  
Parviz Partow-Navid
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
California State University ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
State University ◽  
Wireless Technology ◽  
Database Server ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Plans

This chapter introduces the development of a Unix Lab at the Department of Information Systems at California State University, Los Angeles. It also describes the lab’s impact on our curriculum and the future plans for the inclusion of remote access and wireless technology.

Prelude to “Prologue to Ask the Dust”

2020 ◽  
pp. 281-289
Author(s):  
Stephen Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
75Th Anniversary ◽  
Italian American ◽  
John Fante ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

In this talk, delivered at the 2014 California State University, Long Beach, symposium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of Ask the Dust, Cooper recounts the story of how he came to discover a remarkable letter, to that point unknown, written by John Fante in 1933. Addressed to fellow Italian American writer Jo Pagano, who like Fante had ventured west from Colorado to seek writing success in Los Angeles, the letter provides insight into the crippling doubts and frustrations that burdened the young Fante even as it reveals his deep-seated confidence that he would one day write a great novel. Published here for the first time, this letter prefigures another remarkable Fante letter, the one written in 1938 that is now known as the Prologue to Ask the Dust.

Database-Driven Web Pages Using Only JavaScript

2011 ◽  
pp. 167-185
Author(s):  
Stephen Sottong
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Web Site ◽  
California State University ◽  
New Method ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
State University ◽  
Dynamic Content ◽  
Dynamic Web ◽  
Virus Attack

The California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) Library decided, as part of an overall redesign of its Web site, to use database-driven Web pages (also called dynamic Web pages). When the servers for the database-driven pages were closed down due to a virus attack, a new method of creating the database-driven pages without the necessity of special servers was devised. The resultant Web pages use JavaScript arrays to simulate a database and embedded JavaScript programs to provide the dynamic content for the pages.

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